WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY 
important that the animal from which the flesh is taken 
should have been recently killed. The flesh should be 
cut into long strips, about the size of a goose-quill, each 
bit being given or introduced by one end into the mouth, 
the other end being held in the hand. Another successful 
method is to mince the flesh in the same manner as 
sausage-meat, and mix it with scalded bread -and-milk, to 
which may be added raw or boiled eggs ; only the yolks 
of the latter are to be used. 
I have heard, upon what I think good authority, that 
one of these animals lived three or four months in 
captivity upon the fresh blood of sheep and bullocks, with 
which was mixed a little flne oatmeal. It may, therefore, 
be possible, by varying the food with the above, and by 
the addition of a little honey and the entrails of poultry 
well washed and cut up, that the aard-vark may be kept 
alive. It is diflicult, at first, to get these animals to take 
to the artificial food, but with very great perseverance, a 
good supply of patience, and by thoughtful care, it is to 
be accomplished. 
But if the feeding be entrusted to servants, who seldom 
take much interest in such things, I fear the result would 
be, as heretofore, useless. 
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